Three years ago, because of flooding at the Western Palean Wildlife Preserve, 100 lions and 100 western gazelle were moved to Eastern Palean Wildlife Preserve, an area that is home to most of the same species that are found in western preserve, though large in number, and to the eastern gazelle, a close relative of the western gazelle. The only difference in climate is that the eastern preserve typically has slightly less rainfall. Unfortunately, after 3 years in the eastern preserve, the imported western gazelle population has been virtually eliminated. Since the slight reduction in rainfall cannot be the cause of the virtual elimination of western gazelle, their disappearance must have been caused by the large number of predators in the eastern preserve.
The argument concludes that the disappearance of western gazelle is caused by large number of predators in the eastern preserve. While this might be a possible reason for disappearance there are several other explanations that may account for the problem which are completely neglected by the author.
First of all, the argument assumes that there is large number of predators in the eastern preserve. The author does not mention the exact number of predators in the eastern preserve. Also, it is assumed that there is no other animal except the western gazelle for the predators to hunt on. Hence the disappearance of the western gazelle is quiet questionable.
Secondly, the argument does not specify how much less the rainfall is in the eastern preserve compared to the western preserve. The term “slightly” is used to describe the difference between the two preserves which is ambiguous and does not hold a numeric value. Hence no proper conclusion can be drawn out. There might be a significant difference between the rainfall levels which would have made the western gazelle population go virtually extinct.
Thirdly, there might be a possibility that the western gazelle was unable to adapt the climatic conditions in the eastern preserve. There is no data pertaining to how the decline happened over the span of three years which would reveal whether the disappearance was gradual or sudden. If it was sudden then in no way would the western gazelle disappear due to predators.
To sum up, it can be concluded that due to unrealistic assumptions and lack of data, the conclusion drawn by the author is questionable.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 291, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...n gazelle for the predators to hunt on. Hence the disappearance of the western gazell...
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Line 5, column 274, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...uous and does not hold a numeric value. Hence no proper conclusion can be drawn out. ...
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Line 7, column 286, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...he disappearance was gradual or sudden. If it was sudden then in no way would the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, while, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 24.0651302605 42% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1377.0 1615.20841683 85% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13805970149 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94742110262 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 126.0 176.041082164 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.470149253731 0.561755894193 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 425.7 506.74238477 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.3983269645 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3571428571 106.682146367 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.35714285714 7.06120827912 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.67935871743 23% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203046344545 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0872220716484 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0704346634993 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1127266791 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0640204954306 0.056905535591 113% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.0946893788 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.58950901804 90% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 78.4519038076 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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